I don't even know why Bernie and Chuck is on the staff anyway when we know that Kobe and Steve Nash is the assistant coach. Heck probably be a better team if we fire MDA and let Kobe and Steve coach the team instead.

MDA is an offensive genius. I hope he sticks to his guns and keeps doing what he does best: Run and Gun. That's the only way to coach.

The reason I and maybe other people here are pissed is not just because he's letting go valuable assistants. He's been known to perpetuate his stubborn attitude in this manner.

Remember this is the same guy that refused to have Tom Thibodeau be his defensive coordinator just because his ego was too big. If that's not a dumbass move I don't know what is. He literally just had to sit on his ass and let Thibodeau coach a stellar defense, but he wouldn't even do that much. It also forced him out of New York. If it's not causing him to want to reduce the size his already subpar coaching staff and keep less competent coaches on board, I definitely have a valid reason to be concerned.

As per the Phil Jackson comment, remember he's the one who hired Chuck Person in the first place. He never made dumb decisions like this. He accepted Rambis to be his defensive coordinator too.

It's not the double standard it's the fact that people hate any and every decision before even seeing what the result is going to be or who is replacing them.

We all wanted Bernie to stay but we knew if Mike Brown wanted him in Cleveland with him that's where he'd be.

And not a darn person has mentioned Chuck Person all year, nor has really anyone mentioned him in the defensive assistant thread.

So what it looks like is "Oh i've found something else to complain about D'antoni for!"

I mean people hate that he bought a home in California.

There comes a point where it's just perceived as whining cause he isn't Phil, or just general disdain which seems petty at times when its exaggerated and unnecessary at times. .

If you want to hate on the guy, hate on his coaching style, hate on his lack of adjustments, hate his month and a half of Nash ball.

But hating the guy for buying a mansion, and wishing death on him(which I've actually seen people do here) is just taking it way too far.

And now when Bernie and Persons are let go(one of which was the only person really cared about or talked about this year in Bernie) and the floodgates open for more hate before we even know who is replacing them.

Ya'll weren't singing Person's praises this season, nor last season when he was with Mike Brown, and now that he is let go he was a 'brilliant defensive mind' when all you guys have done is moan about our defense, even when Mike Brown was here, but now that he's gone suddenly our defensive mind is gone and we're gonna suffer terribly because of it...

It's stuff like that I think people that talk about a 'double standard' have a problem with or that you're reaching, when you somehow bring up a guy you haven't mentioned all season nor even in a thread about a good defensive mind Mike D'antoni could hire or go to. Only when he was let go did he become a 'defensive mind' you appreciated, and he only became that so you could state it as reason to hate D'antoni. But the funny thing is barely anyone mentioned the guy at all until he was let go. That's why it seems petty.

But it's not a double standard in my opinion, it's just people finding another reason to reach out and latch on to hate for D'antoni.

Hating on his coaching style or deficiencies is fine. But hating on the guy for shrinking his staff(which he said he'd do, and it's not even his coaching staff it was Mike Brown's, and he DIDN'T have to keep them the rest of the season either but he did) even before we even know who he's replacing them with, and wishing death on him and hating on him and creating a thread TO hate on him for buying a house?

Alvin Gentry can coach a talented team to a respectable record and playoff run. His teams in the past have been bad, but the 2009-2010 Phoenix Suns were really good. What's most important is that he can coach a defensive system in a way that MDA will actually accept.

Alvin Gentry can coach a talented team to a respectable record and playoff run. His teams in the past have been bad, but the 2009-2010 Phoenix Suns were really good. What's most important is that he can coach a defensive system in a way that MDA will actually accept.

Don't really get the criticism that D'Antoni is getting, these aren't his assistants, they were Mike Brown's.

If Phil came in and let some of the assistants go, no one would be saying anything. As head coach, you get to bring in your own staff.

I don't think the criticism is entirely about him letting these people go. But rather it's that he's letting them go without showing any inkling of wanting to hire a better assistant, and his track record with competent assistants (as I mentioned earlier with Thibodeau) isn't great either. Rather most of what I've been reading is that he wants to cut down the size of his staff. And before anyone says anything, Alvin Gentry isn't going to do jack as a defensive coordinator, I'm sorry (and if he's here for offense it won't help much either).

If it were Phil, he would have brought his guys along with him, like Rambis, Winter (back in the day), Shaw, etc, people who we knew were accomplished or at least knew how to run an offense/defense. Not Dan [expletive]ing D'Antoni.